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- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
emeritus Sam Hayes: “The October 19 crash also calls into question the de facto rules and regulations that we’ve been working with for the last fifty years or so and how far we have come from the assumptions underlying the reform... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
The view that "monetary sovereignty" independence could be used wisely does not take into account that the type of government that has driven Greece to the edge of the cliff is not the type of government that would enact the View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
she brought in a former government minister who had guided a similar transition in his South American country. “Hearing directly from someone who had been through it helped convince the president and parliament that they could make the View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
benefits to both members and nonmembers, negotiating advertising and product standards. "French consumer groups cultivated membership not by providing selective benefits, but by emphasizing their public purpose," Trumbull writes. French consumers also fought for... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the need to identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risks at the top of its list of critical problems in need of legislative repair, along with limiting leverage and reforming the credit rating system (see Setting... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
proposal: “To reform the current system,” Pozen wrote in Bloomberg Businessweek, “Congress should exempt from US taxes corporate income earned in foreign countries with an effective corporate tax rate of 20 percent or higher. Such... View Details
- 1976
- Chapter
Reflections on the State of Accounting Research and the Regulation of Accounting
By: Michael Jensen
Jensen, Michael. "Reflections on the State of Accounting Research and the Regulation of Accounting." In Conflicts and Compromises in Financial Reporting, edited by John C. Burton.Stanford Lectures in Accounting. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1976.
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
fruitless attempts to access information during a stint with KPMG Peat Marwick in Poland and while working with an economic reform team in Russia. Mueller credits his brother George, his business partner and technology expert, with the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- January 2023 (Revised November 2024)
- Technical Note
Legal Analysis: Labor Unions in the United States
By: Reshmaan Hussam, Trevor Fetter and Grace Liu
This note provides an overview of the regulation, mechanics, and history of labor unions in the United States, along with an overview of their place in the early 21st century. View Details
Hussam, Reshmaan, Trevor Fetter, and Grace Liu. "Legal Analysis: Labor Unions in the United States." Harvard Business School Technical Note 723-031, January 2023. (Revised November 2024.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector
By: Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal
We construct a novel dataset on electricity generation, wholesale transactions, and retail
sales to assess the shift from cost-of-service regulation to deregulated, market-based prices
in the context of the U.S. electricity sector. Consistent with earlier studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Deregulation; Market Power; Markups; Prices; Electricity; Energy; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Price; Utilities Industry
MacKay, Alexander, and Ignacia Mercadal. "Do Markets Reduce Prices? Evidence from the Electricity Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-095, February 2021. (Revised March 2024. Direct download.)
- 2004
- Book
Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Keywords: Health; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; United States; Germany
Daemmrich, Arthur A. Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. (Winner of Edward Kremers Award of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy For best book in pharmaco-historical writing published in the previous two years presented by American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.)
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Sir David Clementi Named BBC Chairman
(Getty Images) (Getty Images) Sir David Clementi (MBA 1975), former deputy governor of the Bank of England and former chairman of Prudential, has been confirmed as the next chairman of the BBC. Clementi led a review of the BBC’s operations last year, which included his... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
School Case 713-483 Yammer (B) Supplement to "Yammer (A)," HBS case 713-407 Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713483-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 712-466 Moving to Universal Coverage: Health Care Reform in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
for America and proposes federal policy priorities that can form the core of such a strategy. Further, it identifies corporate and personal tax reform as promising first steps in the strategy. However, the authors warn that it will be... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170... View Details
- August 2006
- Article
Information Regulation: Do the Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Miki Mitsunari
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Miki Mitsunari. "Information Regulation: Do the Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?" Journal of Regulatory Economics 30, no. 2 (August 2006): 141–158.
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
away many of the influences that corrupt sound decision-making. However, neither Bradley nor McCain, the candidates who were running on campaign reform in 2000, was able to sell it to the American people. We haven’t talked very much yet... View Details
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Tools of the Trade | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
focusing on large-scale school district reform efforts. “I loved seeing things at the 30,000-foot level, but I’m happiest when I’m in execution and implementation mode, making things happen directly,” explains Varón, who prior to HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
Tobin-seeded research contributed to key elements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, in addition to shaping the Obama administration's approach to evaluating the efficacy of regulations across agencies. How... View Details
- 1984
- Book
Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn
By: T. K. McCraw
McCraw, T. K. Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1984.